WHAT GOES ON HERE?

THE USUAL DECAYING CITY IS A RADIO SHOW THAT AIRS ON WCSB IN CLEVELAND, OHIO.


IT APPEARS OUT OF THE FOG AND DARKNESS AT 4:00AM AND LASTS UNTIL 7:00AM ON SUNDAY MORNINGS.

IF YOU ARE IN CLEVELAND, YOU CAN LISTEN IN THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME. IF YOU MAKE THE SCENE IN ANOTHER CITY, YOU CAN LISTEN ON-LINE HERE.


THE SHOW'S CONTENT OCCUPIES THAT OTHERWORLDLY PLACE IN BETWEEN JACKIE GLEASON'S POT DEALER'S COMFY, MOHAIR COUCH AND THE GHOSTLY STATIC AND HISS ON THE SOUNDTRACKS OF POVERTY ROW HORROR FILMS FROM THE 1930's.

I HOPE YOU DIG IT.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Tales From The Usual Decaying City: The People on the Bus Go....

Last night, on the bus ride home from school, a drunken man with a tattooed black tear on his face and what looked like recent stitches on his neck treated the passengers to an a capella version of Phil Collin's In the Air Tonight. At times, I felt like he was singing to me. Despite the tinge of terror, it made me happy inside.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

The Skulls, The Cobwebs and The Dire Darkness of the Nightmare Hours.

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 10/14/12

1. Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of Walter Schumann)

2. Excerpts from Plan 9 From Outer Space in honor of Ed Wood Jr.'s October 10th Birthday. Did you wear an angora sweater today?

 - Plan 9 From Outer Space

3. Monte Cazazza - Candy Man (The Worst of...)

4. Miranda Sex Garden - Inferno (Susperia)

5. Hoodoo Gurus - Death Ship (Stoneage Romeos)

6. Gershon Kingsley & Peter Waldron - Intro/Night Falls (Ghostly Sounds)

7. Roky Erickson - Night of the Vampire (Gremlins Have Pictures)

8. Boris Karloff - An Introduction (An Evening With Boris Karloff And His Friends)

9. The Method Actors - Halloween (This Is Still It)

10. Pino Donaggio - The Back Room (Tourist Trap sndtrk)

11. Stelvio Cipriani - Fantasia Tragica (Death Walks in High Heels sndtrk)

12. And Also the Trees - Simple Tom And the Ghost of Jenny Bailey (The Millpond Years)

13. Stefano Mainetti - Seq. 1 (Zombi 3 sndtrk)

14. Les Baxter - Main Title / The Raven (The Raven sndtrk)

15. Randy Greif - Part one - exhale: octopus robot (War of the Worlds)

16. Acanthus - Generique / Le Chateau ( V.A. ‎– The Films Of Jean Rollin)

17. Denny King - Evil Wind is Blowing (Evil Wind is Blowing)

18. Inca Babies - Ramblin' Man (Opium Den)

19. Dr. John - I Walk On Guilded Splinters (Gris-Gris)

20. Nico Fidenco - Theme (Zombie Holocaust sndtrk)

21. Human League - Black Hit of Space (Travelogue)

22. Leona Anderson - Rats In My Room (Music to Suffer By)

23. Ennio Morricone - Magic & Ecstacy (Exorcist II: The Heretic sndtrk)

24. Frantics - Werewolf (Stomp!: Northwest Killers Vol. 1)

25. Henri Salvador - Dracula Cha Cha (S'Amuse)

26. H.P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness (H.P. Lovecraft II)

27. Lon Chaney Jr. - Spider Baby's tune (Not Of This Earth! The Film Music Of Ronald Stein)

28. Alien Sex Fiend - Haunted House (live) (Too Much Acid?)

29. Haunted George - Voices From the Stars (an excerpt from...) (Sounds From the Beyond)

30. Jean Richards - The Teeny Tiny Woman (Scholastic records single)

31. Screamin' Jay Hawkins and The Fuzztones - I Put a Spell on You (Live EP)

32. Gravedigger V - All Black and Hairy (All Black and Hairy)

33. Les Baxter - Black Mass (The Dunwich Horror sndtrk)

34. Mike Vickers - Baptism By Blood (Dracula AD 1972 sndtrk)

35. Krzysztof Komeda - Main Titles (Fearless Vampire Killers sndtrk)

36. The Horrors - Death at the Chapel (S/T ep)

37. The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation - The Devil Drives (Dr. Dunbar's Prescription)

38. Goblin - Witch (Susperia sndtrk)

39. Amon Düül II - Deutsch Nepal (Utopia)

40. Krzysztof Komeda - Lullaby (Rosemary's Baby sndtrk)

41. The Munsters - Meet Morticia, Meet the Pets, Meet Grandpa (At Home with The Munsters)

42. Gin Gillette - Train to Satanville (V.A. - Scum of the Earth)

43. The Fuzztones - Ghost Clinic (Brain Bombs)

44. Jess Franco & The B-Band - Black Countess (The Manacoa Experience)

45. Cash Money - Mask of Amontiago (Halos of Smoke & Fire)

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Never Let The Devil Drive

Playlist for The Usual Decaying City for 10/7/12

1. Walter Schumann - Shadow Waltz (Exploring the Voices of Walter Schumann)

2. Vic Mizzy - Opening Titles/Narration (The Night Walker sndtrk)

3. John Cacavas - Main Title/Icy Search (Horror Express sndtrk)

4. Haunted George - Excerpt from Lights Out! (Songs From a Haunted Radio)

5. Libra - The Shock (Shock sndtrk)

6. Gene Page - Blacula (The Stalkwalk) (Blacula sndtrk)

7. Amen Corner - Scream and Scream Again (Scream and Scream Again sndtrk)

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8. Alien Sex Fiend - In and Out of My Mind (I'm Doing Time in a Maximum Security Twilight Home)

9. Boris Karloff - Voice from the Grave (Tales of the Frightened - Vol. 2)

10. Ron Grainer - All Through the Night (Cole Porter)/Zachary Makes His Move (Omega Man sndtrk)

11. Buddy Morrow - The Black Cat (Poe For Moderns)

12. Goblin - Track from the Soundtrack to Beyond the Darkness

13. Keith Emerson - Main Title (The Church sndtrk)

14. Les Baxter - Beastly Transformation (The Beast Within sndtrk)

15. Scary Spooky Stories LP - Dark Dark Dark

 - Scary Spooky Stories

16. Gerald Fried - The Sound of the Night (Female Vocals) (Mark of the Vampire sndtrk)

17. Alessandro Blonksteiner - Boys & Girls (Cannibal Apocalypse sndtrk)

18. Fats Waller - Dry Bones (V.A. The Haunted House)

19. C.W. McCall - Camp Bird Mine (Wolf Creek Pass)

20. John Carpenter - Main Title (Halloween III: Season of the Witch sndtrk)

21. Dinah Shore - Scene of the Crime (V.A. - Monster - Sounds And "Boppin" Tracks Vol.1)

22. Milton DeLugg and Co. as The Vampires - Don't Just Stand There (At The Monster Ball)

23. Frankie Stein - Lullaby of Ghost Land (V.A. - Various ‎– Monster - Sounds And "Boppin" Tracks Vol.1

24. Wade Denning - The Hitch Hiker (Famous Ghost Stories with Spooky Sounds)

25. Charles Laughton And Walter Schumann ‎– Excerpt From The Night Of The Hunter (Part 1) "soundtrack" LP

Charles Laughton - The Night of the Hunter

26. Art Zoyd - L'oeuf du Serpent from their soundtrack to Nosferatu

27. Marty Manning and His Orchestra - Night on Bald Mountain (Twilight Zone)

28. Walter Rizzati - Main Title (The House by the Cemetery sndtrk)

29. Robert Cobert - Main Title (Dark Shadows sndtrk)

30. Dick Hyman / Mary Mayo - Moon Gas (Moon Gas)

31. Clark Ashton Smith - Seeker (Live from Auburn: The Elder Tapes)

32. Maurice Jarre - Jacob's Ladder (Jacob's Ladder sndtrk)

33. Jerry Lewis - A Shine on Your Shoes (Just Sings)

34. Peter Thomas - Chariots of the Gods (US single version) (Chariots of the Gods sndtrk)

35. The Cramps - Surfin' Dead (The Return of the Living Dead sndtrk)

36. Brother Theodore - Introduction/Berenice (Theodore in Stereo)

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37. Gil Melle - Tracks from The Sentinel (The Sentinel sndtrk - bootleg)

38. Jaime Mendoza-Nava - One Who Prowls The Lonely Streets at Night (Orgy of the Dead sndtrk)

39. Jerry Goldsmith - Disco Strut (Coma Sndtrk)

40. William Lava - Main Title (Dracula Vs Frankenstein sndtrk)

41. J. Peter Robinson - Jogging / Bad Coffee / Sacrifice (Main Titles) (The Believers sndtrk)

42. Murray Schaff – Tombstone N°9 (V.A. - Monsters Sounds And "Boppin" Tracks Vol.2)

43. John Carpenter - Coroner's Theme (track was edited due to time) (Body Bags sndtrk)